Sense of the Manoa Faculty Senate regarding the proposed
name changes for the Community Colleges.

The Manoa Faculty Senate has discussed the System
administration's proposal to change the names of the
Community Colleges, the essence of which is to remove the
designation "community."

The Senate does not object to and will not stand in the way
of this change. We believe that our colleagues in the
Community Colleges must take the lead in this decision.

The Senate agrees that it may be desirable, from a marketing
point of view, to change the names as proposed. Our own
investigations confirm the administration's assertion that
the new nomenclature is not uncommon among institutions
which offer associate degrees.

In our discussion, Senators expressed concerns about the
potential costs of this change, no estimate of which has
been made available to us. Some Senators question the
emphasis being given to names, when far more pressing
matters confront us.